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The reading of Professor Owen’s memoir on the Myology of the 
Apteryx was continued. 
Mr. Gould then brought before the notice of the Meeting some 
additional ornithological novelties from Australia, and character- 
ized an Artamus, conspicuous for the white colouring of the rump, 
as 
ARTAMUS LEUCOPYGIaLIs. Art. capite, guld, et dorso fuliginoso- 
cinereis ; pectore, partibus inferioribus, et uropygio albis ; rostro 
pallide ceruleo-cinereo. 
Head, throat and back sooty grey; primaries and tail brownish 
black, washed with grey; chest, all the under surface, and rump, 
pure white ; irides brown; Dill light bluish grey at the base, black at 
the tip; legs and feet mealy greenish grey. 
Total length, 53 inches; bill, +3; wing, 53; tail, 24 ; tarsi, 3. 
Hab. Australia. 
A new Pitta, being the third species of that form from the Austra- 
lian continent, as 
Pirra Iris. Pitt. capite, collo, pectore, abdomine, lateribus, et fe- 
moribus nigerrimis ; fascid superoculari, ad occiput ductd ferru- 
gined ; corpore supra, alisque ex aureo viridibus, humeris metallice 
ceruleis et fascid inferiore lazulind ornatis. 
Head, neck, breast, abdomen, flanks and thighs deep velvety black; 
over the eye, extending to the occiput, a band of ferruginous brown ; 
upper surface and wings golden green; shoulders bright metallic 
cerulean blue, bordered below with lazuline blue; primaries black, 
passing into olive-brown at their tips; the third, fourth, fifth and 
sixth having a spot of white about the centre of the feather; tail 
black at the base, green at the tip, the former colour running on the 
inner web nearly to the tip; rump-feathers tinged with cerulean 
blue; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts bright scarlet, 
separated from the black of the abdomen by yellowish brown ; irides 
dark brown ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 
Total length, 7 inches; bill, 11; wing, 4; tail, 12; tarsi, 14. 
Hab. Cobourg Peninsula, north coast of Australia. 
Mr. Gould then pointed out the generic characters of ‘two new 
genera of Finches, the first of which he proposed to designate 
Genus EmBiEema. 
Rostrum feré quam caput longum, conicum (ut in genere Ploceus). 
Ale mediocres; remige prima parvula, quatuor proximis inter se 
zqualibus ; tertiariis elongatis. Cauda mediocris, et fere quadrata, 
vel paululim rotundata. Pedes plantigradi, digitis gracillimis ; 
digito intermedio externis longiore, illis inter se zequalibus. 
Empiema Picta. mb. facie et guld saturate miniaceis ; vertice et 
corpore supra fuscis ; pectore et corpore subtis nigris crebré albo- 
guttatis, abdomine medio miniaceo adsperso. 
